Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.

Louie Gohmert

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Carl Levin

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Benjamin Franklin

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Amending the constitution is not a good thing.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

This constitution opens the path to all parties to participate in the next legislative elections in order to elect representatives of all the Iraqi communities,

Ray McGovern

This is a matter of principle where she said my oath, my promise not to reveal secrets is superseded by my oath to defend the constitution of the United States.

Bill Clinton

They've got a right to try to override any veto that I make. That's the way the Constitution works.

They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written, but it will.

George Eliot

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution

The NUC skirmish is only a prelude...the real issue is in my view the new constitution.

This means the constitution will stay as it is for decades to come.

It's an unusual step. It's a big step, but what the president did by consciously and intentionally violating the constitution and laws of this country with this illegal wiretapping has to be answered.

It was boredom. Essentially that's what he said at the time. The constitution gives the lieutenant governor no real responsibilities except to succeed the governor in the event of death or other impairment.

Robert Byrd

And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.

Vayalar Ravi

The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

Will Rogers

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

Martin Heinrich

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.

Rafik Hariri

affirms to the Lebanese that he will continue to shoulder the responsibility in safeguarding the constitution and the laws.

Bruce Fein

The most important thing to me, in terms of thinking about the issue of impeachment, is to recognize that the Constitution does place a value on continuity. We don't want to have a situation where you make a single error, and you're exposed to an impeachment proceeding.

Putting it in the state constitution doesn't save it.

I've watched as you have kept your oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

John Roberts

The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,

A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run,

John Thune

You're trying to pull together a lot of different people, a lot of different factions ... but I'm hopeful that when it's all said and done that they'll have a constitution that ultimately will be ratified by their government,

Gerald R. Ford

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Eula Biss

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.

Eric Holder

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

During every crisis that we've had, the president has taken power that isn't warranted by the Constitution. This is another example of it.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We do not support a coup. We have always operated within the means of the Constitution.

John Conyers

Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that, ... She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today.